Definition of Packets to be Distributed (SAP Library

Definition of Packets to be Distributed

Use

You define which products participate in distribution. The set of all product that participate in distribution forms the distributable product portfolio of your company. A product is represented by a material. However, you may find it useful to assign a class in which materials are classified.

Integration

Configuration folders and baselines are managed with configuration management. However, you can call all the functions you need for PLM product data distribution from the replication workbench.

For more information on configuration management, see the SAP Library Working with Configuration Management.

Features

You create a configuration folder for products that you want to distribute. In the configuration folder, you enter one or more objects that identify the product, such as a material master record or document.

In the recipient list of a configuration folder, you register the logical systems to which the product or new product versions are to be distributed. Here, you also register the users that are to be informed of each new product version.

You can group together several configuration folders for related products to a configuration definition. This can be useful if you create a separate configuration folder for individual assemblies of a product.

The strategy that you use to assign products to configuration folders, and assign configuration folders to recipients, and configuration definition, must be defined in the project concerned.

In a configuration folder, you can also group together several products. This can be useful if you always want to distribute several products of a product family together. These are just some of the options you have:

You enter several material master records or documents in a configuration folder.
You enter a class in a configuration folder. In this case, all the products that area currently classified for distribution in this class are distributed.
You enter all top objects for a recipient in a configuration folder.
You create a folder for each top object.
You register several recipients for a folder.

Activities

To create a configuration folder in the replication workbench:

Choose Logistics ® Central Functions ® Product Data Distribution ® Replication Workbench.

You see the replication workbench.

Choose Folders à Create Product Folder or .

If a folder already exists, you can enter data on the selection screen and search for the folder.

Enter the following data in the Creation of a Configuration Definition window:

Key and description for a configuration definition.
Life-cycle profile

Recommendation

We recommend that you create a life-cycle profile for product data distribution with only one life-cycle phase (see also the Implementation Guide Logistics General ® Configuration Management ® Define Life-Cycle Profile).

Key and description for a configuration folder.
If a configuration definition already exists, you can enter data on the selection screen and search for the configuration definition. You then create a new configuration folder for this configuration definition.

Confirm your entries by choosing .

Result

The system creates a configuration definition and a configuration folder, where you can enter the objects you want to distribute and the logical systems and users.